OldFatGuy: Is there such a virus or malware known as "scanner"? when i tried to ixquick it, all of the results came up with virus scanners (instead of a virus called scanner LOL).

I was at my home page a few minutes ago (XFinity dot com) checking my email and then went to go to one of of my other regular old sites when suddenly my laptop makes a loud funny sound, the browser turns all white and small pop up box appears saying your machine has been infected with a virus, click OK to continue. I couldn't close the browser or anything.

So I just went on the start menu and selected "Shut Down". And it did. While it was shutting down, a screen popped up saying one program was still running and when it ended it made that same loud funny sound again and I noticed the name of the program that was shutting down was SCANNER.

There's no way this was a real virus right? You can't just get rid of viruses by shutting down and restarting your computer. Was this some sort of out of control ad for a virus scanner maybe?? I've run two scans with two different malware software since and both report 0 threats.

Anyone have any ideas? Scared the shit out of me for a second. If that's someones idea of advertising, I'd like five minutes in a room alone with him to explain why that's not a good idea.